Selective Edits with Photoshop Adjustment Layer Masks

Here we take a look at a simple way to limit our Photoshop Image Adjustment Layers to affect only certain regions of the photograph. We’ll do this using the built-in layer mask and the Gradient tool.
The adjustment layer featured in this video is the Curves adjustment, but you can use this effect on all adjustment layers.

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Dan Moughamian wrote 26 articles on this blog.

Dan Moughamian is an experienced photographer and educator, and has worked with Adobe Photoshop since the early 1990s. He also has extensive experience with Photoshop Lightroom, Photoshop Elements, plugins from Nik software, and many other digital imaging products. As a long-time member of their testing programs, Dan has collaborated with Adobe Systems to help enhance many of the core functions in Photoshop, Lightroom, and Elements. As an educator, Dan's focus is to help photographers at all levels get the most from their digital workflows. Tips on raw editing, layer masking, alpha channels, image adjustments, HDR photography, focus and lighting effects, and perspective correction, are just a few examples of the topics he covers. To learn more, you can visit Colortrails.com

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